View from the Ponte Vecchio, 1945
The photograph depicted above shows an American Field Service (AFS) ambulance driver looking at ruins in Florence, Italy from the…
Archival Spotlight
highlighting exciting and unique items from the Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs
Khaki the Dog, 1915
Joshua Gabriel Baker Campbell enlisted with the transportation units at the American Ambulance Hospital in 1914, with a group that…
Belt of a Thousand Stitches, 1944
Thomas M. Sawyer was teaching English at a school in Honolulu, Hawaii, when Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7,…
World’s Fair, 1965
In July 1965, 140 AFS Participants visited the Bell Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair during their summer bus…
AFS Diploma, 1917
The item shown above is the diploma that was given to every volunteer who served in the American Field Service…
Martha Verdejo Bigliani, 1955
AFS Argentina is one of several AFS countries celebrating a 60th anniversary this year! AFS Argentina sent its first six…
Evacuation of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, 1945
Evacuation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. RG2/030, Charles H. Horton Collection. Courtesy of the Archives of the American Field…
Deconstructed Photograph, 1917
April 2015 is exactly 100 years after A. Piatt Andrew negotiated an agreement with the French military to have ambulance…
AFS Mom, 1979
This photograph shows Marga Johnstone, the AFS Chapter President of John Muir High School, standing in front of her car…
A World War II Love Story, 1944
World War II Driver Charles P. Edwards was active in service projects even before volunteering with the American Field Service…